Genesis 29:31-35 Your Maker is your husband!

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah

31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. 32And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”

33Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.

34Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.

35And once more, she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah.e Then Leah stopped having children.

“Wretched Leah sits sadly in her tent with her maid and spends her time spinning and weeping. For the rest of the household, and especially Rachel, despises her because she has been scorned by her husband, who prefers Rachel and is desperately in love with Rachel alone. She is not beautiful, not pleasing. No, she is odious and hated… There the poor girl sits; no one pays any attention to her. Rachel gives herself airs before; she does not deign to look at her. ‘I am the lady of the house,’ she thinks, ‘Leah is a slave.’ These are truly carnal things in the saintly fathers and mothers, like the things that usually happen in our houses.” (Luther, cited in Boice)

Leah was unloved and Gods compassion was touching.

He opened her womb and gave her four sons.

The four sons, names and meaning;

Reuben, Behold a son.

Simeon, Hearing.

Levi, Attachment.

Judah, Praise

“Then Leah stopped having children.” Later we will learn she prays and God blesses her with three more children.

Leah had a husband that didn’t love her, but God did. Look at Isaiah 54:5.

Isaiah 54:5 (ESV)

5  For your Maker is your husband,

the Lord of hosts is his name;

and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,

the God of the whole earth he is called.

Are you unloved? “your Maker is your husband”.

Blessings, David